Mothers Day

The last few days I have busy in my little studio cutting, gluing, punching, stitching, pinning and generally enjoying some creative time with my sheet music.

I made some little Mothers Day gifts for both our mums

hanging hearts with crystals

Paper daisies

decoupage eggs with ribbon & lace

 

Happy Mothers Day

 

To My Mum

 

 

 and to Kevin's Mum

 

 

I hope that all Mums out there have a lovely Mothers Day <3

 

xxx

Yvonne

Sketchbook peek

More flowers, in my sketchbook

 experimenting, with watercolours

wax resist

overlaying
& pen

I'm thinking ...quilting perhaps ........

I'm enjoying The Sketchbook Challenge,
 I'm using my sketchbook much more and I feel more connected to it again,
which is good :)


Flowers in my sketchbook

I relly feel at home with the Sketchbook Challenge theme this month

'Flowers'

Watercolour paint and Pitt pen

Watercolour paint & paper collage with Pitt pen

Pitt pen & watercolour pencil

Thanks for stopping by

Yvonne x

Foliage to Fabric

Fabric Leaf embellishments

From foliage to fabric

I love using transfer mediums especially

fabric crayons and paints

The simple leaves from my yellow rose were perfect for taking rubbings from with the crayons

I painted over these with the transfer paints

and cut them out

I laid these out face down onto white cotton fabric, covered with more fabric to hold the paper cut outs in place then pressed them with a hot iron.

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I didn't get a good picture of the transferred images before the next stage but have since did some more of these and decided to iron the image onto pale green cotton shirt fabric to good effect.

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Transferred images covered with little pieces of chiffon and organza fabrics

 free machine stitched around the outlines

You can still see the leaf crayon imprints through the organza

Then I went a bit mad and had some fun with some more free machine embroidery

 trimmed to the stitched edge

Fabric Leaf embellishments

Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial

Transfer paints by Decca

Fabric transfer crayons by Crayola

Easter Flowers

I hope you all had a peaceful Easter Sunday

It was lovely and sunny here today in Fife.

 Our church alter was decorated with beautiful Easter Lillies. Spring green branches and daffodil bunches tied with white ribbon to the rafter supports added a beautiful simple touch.

After church our little one spent some time in the garden with daddy weeding and planting new things. It was lovely to see them both enjoying the sunshine.

This was a bunch of flowers which were showing signs of growing thin when I read Rhiannon's post about her flower table decoration I decided to do the same, I think it looked pretty.

I totally love this pale green vintage table cloth

 I picked it up at our local car boot sale last weekend for 50p!

Throughout the day I enjoyed working some more on my black and white quilt, but more on that tomorrow.